MS1408
Folder 1. black & white photos (3.5" x 5.75") from a blue envelope marked "Hudson Auto Wreck - Grandpa Vilas Home and Bungalow." Cabinet card (2 copies) of Jos. Emery Vilas, Kaukauna, Wis., taken July 22nd, 1889, aged 3 months.
Folder 2. (5) black and white photographs: -2.5 x 3.5" snapshot "Blanche Tanner 1938" cabin interior // -3 x 6 photo card "Grandmother Emery's home" Gothic Victorian home with family in the yard. // -4 X 5 photo card "Edward Platt Vilas" about age 2 on stairway with valley view in the background. // -2 X 7" ivory portrait folio "Edward Platt Vilas" "Ball Studio Corvallis, Ore." ca. 1916. // -5 X 6" photo card of women in a yard. Written on the back in pencil "Mrs. Vilas 1906". Includes Mrs. Mulford, Mrs. Vilas, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Leppla, Mrs. Hartley. // Typed letter dated 1916 to Mrs. J. Stillwell Vilas, Medford, Oregon from Dr. and Mrs. Tanner regarding a photograph of six ladies, formerly residents of Kaukauna, Wisconsin.
Folder 3. (9) Cabinet cards and photographs from the Deuel/Vilas collection; The Deuel and Vilas families are from Medford, Oregon. Uncle Lige Rand, Manitowoc, Wis. Hannah Emery, George's grandmother. Melendy and Packard, Manitowoc, Wisconsin.
(2) Elizabeth Emery Vilas, age 25, 1891. S.L. Stein, Milwaukee, "Mother" S.L. Stein 310 State St. Milwaukee, Edward Platt Vilas "Neddie" infant, Richardson Kaukauna, Wis., Edward Platt Vilas age 16 months, Richardson Kaukauna, Wis., (1) 6 x 9 portrait card, oval insert, Edward Platt Vilas 1908, 2.25 x 4" photo "Joseph Vilas House Manitowoc Grandfather Vilas' house.,
5 x 7" photo. Children in crib "Rene and Neddie" (Catherine Deuel Vilas referred to as "Rene" and Edward P. Vilas, Jr. as "Neddie", ca. 1926.
Folder 4. 6.5 x 4.5" photo card "Joseph Emery Vilas" about age 10yrs. "Richardson Kaukauna, Wis., 6.5 x 4.25 photo card "April 1890". Age 1 year. Unidentified baby. "H.W. Donner, 132 E. Second St., South Kaukauna, Wis.". 5/5 x 9" portrait card. Joseph Emery Vilas about age 20. "Steckel Los Angeles, Cal." , (5) 6.5 x 4.25" photo card portraits of child, Joseph Emery Vilas, at various ages. One card is colorized. In one photo, he is holding onto a tricycle.
Folder 5. (4) photos with Madge Biddle, Elizabeth Norris, and Mrs. Biddle Sr. One with additional women plus Bud Hayes. (4) 2.5 x 1.5" b & w photos: (1) Lake of the Woods, (1) Dorothy Monroe- Mary Lee Rasmussen -Betty Bardwell (1) Susan Robinson - Mrs. Burnham, Medford to Butte Falls Railroad, and (1) the Roberts sisters, Dorothy, Lee, and Betty., A 9.5 x 11.5" loose photo album page with 6 random photos. Ned Vilas in L.A. (matched with another photo for ID), indoor living room with rock fireplace , woman in buggy in orchard (Rogue Valley, Elizabeth Vilas?) courtyard with young man and dog, waterfall, and sailboats on a lake.
B & W photocard taken Kaukauna, Wisc., of Grandma Emery, Elizabeth Vilas, Ned & George. The children are about 5 years old. Porch of home.
Folder 6. (8) 3 x 5 color photographs of Christmas 1977 at the home of Cathy and Bud Hayes.
Album 1a. Brown leather covered album with inscription in the front "To Grandma from George and Ned / Medford Aug 3rd, 1910"
Album 2a. Black leather "Vilas" album unidentified people
Album 3a. Black leather photo album 10.5 x 7.25 inches with Vilas family portraits
(2) B&W, 8 x 10 photographs of an unknown male in his 50s around 1930 possibly. // Yellow envelope "War Department official business" to "Mrs. Vilas from L.T. Jones" ca? 1920. // (2 copies )Jos. Emery Vilas at 3 mo. 1889 // Edward Platt Vilas baptism card
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MS1408 box 5
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Location
M10 C 4
Source Reference
Accession Number
2022.44.27